Archive for February, 2008

Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Wii ships March 9th »

Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Nintendo Wii is shipping on March 9th. You can pre-order the highly anticipated new game for the Wii on Amazon.com for $49.99.
This is the 3rd installment in Nintendo’s popular Super Smash Bros. fighter franchise now set to debut on the Nintendo Wii.
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Wii you […]

GDC: LucasArts prioritizing PS3 dev, unleashing Force »

In recent months, the PlayStation 3 versions of many multiplatform games have been released after their Xbox 360 counterparts–or canceled outright. Others, like Grand Theft Auto IV, have seen both versions delayed because, having optimized the game first on the 360, the developers encountered difficulties with the PS3 edition.
This week at the 2008 Game Developers […]

Google’s Brin fears the Microhoo borg »

Speaking at an event for the Google Lunar X Prize on Thursday, Google co-founder Sergey Brin reiterated his company’s position on a Microsoft-Yahoo union, the Associated Press reported.
“The Internet has evolved from open standards, having a diversity of companies. And when you start to have companies that control the operating system, control the browsers, […]

T-Mobile offering home phone service, new Internet telephone »

T-Mobile USA said Thursday it’s testing a new Internet telephony service in Dallas and Seattle that will replace consumers’ wireline home phone service.
Subscribers will be able to connect any regular home telephone to a T-Mobile router that will send calls over the Internet much the same way as services like Vonage operate. The service costs […]

Internet Network Forum Headed for Boston »

By JOHN DUNBAR, AP
Internet users should be free to surf where they want and download what they please. But shouldn’t the owners of the networks that make the Internet possible also have rights?
That, in a nutshell, is the topic of debate at a special public meeting of the Federal Communications Commission at Harvard Law School […]

NASA names new space shuttle program manager »

John Shannon, chairman of NASA’s Mission Management Team and the man responsible for the conduct of space shuttle missions, was named manager of the shuttle program today, replacing N. Wayne Hale, a veteran ascent-entry flight director who helped steer NASA’s recovery from the 2003 Columbia disaster.
Shannon, a former flight director known for his self-assured, no-nonsense […]

Tracing human diversity through the ages »

A coalition of Stanford scientists has released the most detailed road map yet of human diversity, offering insight into the emergence and restless migration of the world’s populations.
Using the Stanford Human Genome Center to study genetic variations in almost 1,000 individuals from 51 populations, the team has completed the largest analysis to date of […]